Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-08
MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1887.
The Called Jade Winces.

The Called Jade Winces.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
San Francisco Post. in its issue of the
5th inst, shows considerable annoy
ance at the HERALD's venturing to
rebuke it's marked animus against Los
Angeles, which is the more conspicu-
Gus because it contrasts so strongly
with the past course of that journal.
1t now says that it has no i'll will to
this section. All the same, the bulle-
tin board in front OF its Office was
twice within a week placarded with
sensational headlines about the "Los
Angeles Craze" and it contained two
letters purporting to be written from
this city, to which it gave prominent
space, and in which our leading bank
ers were held up as engaged in unsafe
real estate speculations, each OF them
embodying labored arguments which
aimed to prove that there was no pos
sibility of an adequate return upon
the high prices of real estate that pre-
vailed here. The intention of these
articles was, no doubt, to excite dis
trust of investments in Los Angeles.
Instead of showing qualification at the
fact that Southern California is at last
receiving its proper need of apprecia-
fion, the tendency of these letters was
to persuade those who had no oppor-
tunity OF personal examination into
the subject that this was highly over
rated gion which was on the brink
Of disaster. The circumstance that
Californians, as well as the people
Of the East, have at last come
TO realize. the strong claims of
an extensive region of this State
would, it would seem to dis
passionate observer, be a matter OF
graduation instead OF carping criticism
to a newspaper published in Califor-
MIA. Defeated in honest argument
for we called its attention to the fact
that the heaviest capitalists in northern
and central California have shown by
their acts their conviction that our
present growth is but a foretaste OF
what is to come-the Post has recourse
to the Grgumentum ad hoaainem, which
is always the remedy when reason
fails. 1t says:
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Los Angeles HERALD, which, in its
anxiety to be fret boom and next a
political organ, has no time to be a
newspaper, has constituted itself the
special guardian of the southern citrus
belt, and lays about it with large
stuffed club whenever that holy ark of
the covenant is lightly mentioned.
As the oracle of the crossroads and
the terror to the critical stranger, Ed
itor Lynch, of the HERALD, is the only
known rival of Editor Green, OF the
Colusa Sun.
The Post can rely on it that the
HERALD, under whatsoever editorial
management, will always make it a
point to stand by the rightful claims
of its section. That journal has made
IA very foolish break at a time when
the great dailies of San Francisco and
the country at large are beginning
to recognize the claims of Southern
California. If our contemporary will
take the tronble to interview ex-Gov-
ernor Stanford, Ex-Governor George
G. Perkins, Mr.. A. N. Towne, Mr.. j.
A. Fillmore, Senator John =. Jones,
ex-senator James q. Fair, Mr.. VIM.
T. Coleman, and almost any San
Franciscan from the northern or CEN
tral counties who has inspected
this region, it will discover
that those gentlemen have as
high an estimate of the pres
ent and future of Los Angeles and
Southern California as any one resi-
dent here. As to the Posts slur upon
the HERALD as a newspaper, we can
only say that it is SO incomparably
superior to that journal in its tele-
graphic and other departments that
both could not we'll be named in the
Same breath. Although our San Fran
cisco contemporary is published in a
city of three hundred and fifty thou
sand inhabitants, and the HERALD in
one of only sixty thousand, our own
journal contains every day at least
three times the telegraphic dispatches
Of the Post, and they come over the
wires instead of being mainly copied,
as is the case with the San Francisco
paper, from the morning journals.
Yesterdays HERALD contained forty
four columns of reading matter, and
its composition bills will average twice
those of its San Francisco asperser.
Under the circumstances we can sup
port its ill-humor with considerable
resignation.